Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Coan et al. 2000, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hertlein and Grant 1972 and Huber 2010
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cultellus, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willamettensis, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana zieteni, Leda semenoides, Leda bavarica, Leda zitteli, Leda houstonia, Leda striatula, Leda ingens, Leda doris, Leda claviformis, Leda lacryma, Leda (Lembulus), Leda coelata, Leda alkiensis, Leda radiata, Leda dijki, Leda decorata, Leda polynominata, Leda coelatoides, Leda praeradiata, Leda magnopsis, Leda gabrielis, Leda opulenta, Leda sulcellata, Leda becki, Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda plana, Leda magna, Leda distincta, Leda calcarensis, Leda vaticani, Leda barranca, Leda minuta, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda crassiparva, Leda leia, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda elliptica, Leda ozarkola, Leda stewardi, Leda subquadrata, Leda minuta, Leda scutula, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda transversa, Leda excavata, Leda wautubbeana, Leda projecta, Leda reussi, Leda pygmaea, Leda glabra, Leda striatella, Leda kittensis, Leda cochlearella, Leda (Spinula), Leda willamettensis, Leda wissmanniana, Leda obolella, Leda zelima, Leda borsoni, Leda parkei, Leda trumani, Leda subtrigona, Leda longifrons, Leda vanuxemi, Leda truncata, Leda catasarca, Leda rangei, Leda deffneri, Leda scalata, Leda carolinensis, Leda renevieri, Leda semipolita, Leda schiavi, Leda semistriata, Leda discors, Leda nitida, Leda caudata, Leda (Leda), Leda pistorupes, Leda whitfieldi, Crassoleda crassatelloides
Subtaxa: Nuculana (Nuculana) arenicola Nuculana (Nuculana) confusa Nuculana (Nuculana) elongorostrata Nuculana (Nuculana) extenuata Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa Nuculana (Nuculana) grandensis Nuculana (Nuculana) hamata Nuculana (Nuculana) leonina Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta Nuculana (Nuculana) naibandensis Nuculana (Nuculana) navisa Nuculana (Nuculana) odiyamensis Nuculana (Nuculana) senni Nuculana (Nuculana) tenuisulcata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (13: Alaska, California, Maine)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (7)
• Pliocene of Japan (1), United States (4: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Chile (2), Japan (2), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (13)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: Alaska)
• Eocene of Barbados (3), the Russian Federation (3)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Egypt (1), India (3), Japan (3), Jordan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (5: California, South Dakota, Texas)
• Triassic of Iran (10), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 89 collections including 113 occurrences